Ex-official Wins Prison Release

Digest - Edited version in Broward Metro

April 21, 1985|By Robert McClure, Staff Writer

Former Palm Beach County Property Appraiser David Reid, serving a five-year sentence for accepting bribes, said Saturday he will be released from prison Sept. 9 and plans to return to Palm Beach County.

Reid said in a telephone interview from Lawtey Correctional Institution in North Florida that he plans to return to work for the Rudi Corp., owned by Rudolph Hooks Sr. and W.H. Acree. He worked for the Belle Glade-area businessmen for 15 months before he was sent to prison.

Reid, who will have served almost 18 months of his sentence, was granted the early release last week by the state Parole and Probation Commission. His release is conditioned on approval of his plans for the future by a Department of Corrections hearing officer.

Reid, a longtime local political power who won re-election on the largest margin in any countywide race in 1980, was convicted of taking more than $11,000 in bribes from two property owners in exchange for lowered assessments on their land.